LEXILE Measurement: AD610L
Gold Medal, 2016 Readers' Favorite International Book Award
in the Children's Educational category
Winner of the 2015 International Book Award in the Children's
Educational category
Packed with exciting illustrations and interesting facts, this adventure
story will enchant as it creates awareness for the endangered Florida
manatee. In late September, Kobee Manatee is on a twelve hundred-mile
mission to get back home to Florida from Cape Cod, Massachusetts before
the impending cold threatens his life. On his journey, he meets two new
friends: Tess the seahorse, who loves to learn, and Pablo the hermit
crab, who is in search for a new shell. Will Kobee and his friends make
it to Florida in time?